Been a busy few days.

My wife is in internal decorating mode so we're out of our bedroom while it's being repainted by us. I think we will be out for another 1-2 nights.

Net result is limited BBS time and feeling totally stuffed at the end of the day... but we do get a freshly painted room at the end of it

I'm going to try and do some admin in a few hours time, still technically working at the moment, but on a break.

.

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Avon wrote to All <=-

My wife is in internal decorating mode so we're out of our bedroom
while it's being repainted by us. I think we will be out for another
1-2 nights.

That's the next step in our house. All of the kids bedrooms have been
painted, ours is the last to go.

We've been on a Craigslist tear, replacing our sleigh bed with a
mission-style bed, staining our nightstands to match, and getting all
of the furniture in there to match color. Sold the sleigh bed to
cover the cost of the new bed.

We have had a bunch of armoires left over from when we had CRT TVs,
and sold 2 of them. Used the money to buy an entertainment center and
a media cabinet. Change the drawer pulls to match the other pieces
and we're set. I don't think the big armoires are going to keep their
value any more now that people are mounting TVs on walls.

We had some money left over, found a beautiful coffee table for our
living room.

It's been great, we've gotten all solid-wood furniture for the cost
of cheap Ikea stuff, and finally gotten our money's worth out of that
big SUV we bought.



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Been a busy few days.

My wife is in internal decorating mode so we're out of our bedroom while it's being repainted by us. I think we will be out for another 1-2
nights.

Net result is limited BBS time and feeling totally stuffed at the end of the day... but we do get a freshly painted room at the end of it

I'm going to try and do some admin in a few hours time, still technically working at the moment, but on a break.

.

As always, thanks for fsxNet - take your time.... lol, sorry about the
bedroom situation; I can certainly understand when our significant others
want things done. :P Take your time and try not to worry about fsx; lol, yea right.

I appreciate your updates when you have things crackin off... but some of us are completely OK with you taking time for Paul- always remember that the BBS is a hobby, fun. Keep it fun, daddio.

STFO!



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Hey

I've been busy. Got a new (to me) computer for running my OS on. It's an
old HP core 2 duo, cost about $40-50 I can't remember exactly. Anyway, I
put my os on it and it didn't work!

Turned out it was an issue that putting the SATA controller into IDE mode didn't put it into legacy mode but PCI-IDE mode (I guess). So I wrote an
AHCI driver, and now my OS works on it.

There are more bugs now though. I think it boils down to sharing IRQs and
I'm not handling shared irqs very well. I don't know. I've had too many
beers to figure it out today.

TCP/IP stack didn't magically fix itself. Well TCP. UDP works and IP
works, TCP is being a pain in the butt.

Looks like I've got a few new feature requests for talisman. I guess I'll
get to them eventually. Right now BBSing is kinda not on my top priority
list. Guess it's one of those phases where BBSing is kinda meh (or at
least I should say developing BBS software is)

Ah well. Ideally I'd merge these two hobbies and be writing a BBS system
for Quinn. But I have to sort out the bugs first.

Andrew

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I've been busy. Got a new (to me) computer for running my OS on. It's
an
old HP core 2 duo, cost about $40-50 I can't remember exactly. Anyway,

Ah awesome, I think I saw some mention of this when I was skipping over messages in my haste to catch up..

It'd be cool to see your progress on Quinn via a Youtube channel. :)

Looks like I've got a few new feature requests for talisman. I guess
I'll
get to them eventually. Right now BBSing is kinda not on my top

That was me. :) All good, I don't consider any of them important. I just figured I'd put them up to save me forgetting them...

Ah well. Ideally I'd merge these two hobbies and be writing a BBS
system
for Quinn. But I have to sort out the bugs first.

If anyone waited for their bugs to be sorted, there'd never be any
software released! haha

I appreciate the work you've done on Talisman. It's definitely above and
beyond for free software of a decades old technology. :D Have a good
christmas and new year, and more importantly, a good *break*!

-- JoE DooM/aka Spiro in NZ


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On 18 Dec 2021 at 02:56p, apam pondered and said...

Hey

Hey :)

I've been busy. Got a new (to me) computer for running my OS on. It's an old HP core 2 duo, cost about $40-50 I can't remember exactly. Anyway, I put my os on it and it didn't work!

I think I may have the same (or very similar) machine upstairs :)

Turned out it was an issue that putting the SATA controller into IDE mode didn't put it into legacy mode but PCI-IDE mode (I guess). So I wrote an AHCI driver, and now my OS works on it.

It's cool you can write it to sort the problem. Kinda like a modern day carpenter but you're working in code instead of wood. <-- this seems all rather deep for just one Jack Daniels and Coke. Just saying ;-)

There are more bugs now though. I think it boils down to sharing IRQs and I'm not handling shared irqs very well. I don't know. I've had too many beers to figure it out today.

My beers are in a beer fridge and I should not be touching them until Christmas... will I make it?

Looks like I've got a few new feature requests for talisman. I guess I'll get to them eventually. Right now BBSing is kinda not on my top priority list. Guess it's one of those phases where BBSing is kinda meh (or at least I should say developing BBS software is)

I have been a bit up/down too, really did little for a couple of weeks but also have tried to keep up with new node requests and also my wifes honey-do list... so yeah, time... where did it all go? :)

Ah well. Ideally I'd merge these two hobbies and be writing a BBS system for Quinn. But I have to sort out the bugs first.

That sounds like an interesting idea. I guess it depends on if that would cause you more fault tracking down issues or less? Dunno.

<throws Apam another beer>

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My beers are in a beer fridge and I should not be touching them until Christmas... will I make it?

PLACE YOUR BETS! PLACE YOUR BETS!
I got $20 on the 21st of December...

<throws Apam another beer>

Damn, I lost.

;(


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On 19 Dec 2021 at 09:17p, JoE DooM pondered and said...

PLACE YOUR BETS! PLACE YOUR BETS!
I got $20 on the 21st of December...

So far so good have not touched the Christmas beer - yet... but by golly it's getting harder.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

PLACE YOUR BETS! PLACE YOUR BETS!
I got $20 on the 21st of December...

So far so good have not touched the Christmas beer - yet... but by
golly it's getting harder.

Haha, there is a six pack in the fridge for me for christmas day here,
it's from my father in law. Gosh it's tempting, but I know I'll get in
trouble if I touch it before then :P

Andrew

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